zope.contenttype 6.0

Zope contenttype

zope.contenttype

A utility module for content-type (MIME type) handling.

Functions include:

• Guessing a content type given a name and (optional) body data.

• Guessing a content type given some text.

• Parsing MIME types.

Documentation is hosted at https://zopecontenttype.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Change History

6.0 (2025-09-12)

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.

5.2 (2025-02-14)

• Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.

• Drop support for Python 3.7, 3.8.

• Call mimetypes.guess_type with parameter strict=False. This recognizes a few more content types related to midi, pict, xul and rtf; for details, see #14.

5.1 (2023-09-21)

• Add some more MIME types and extensions.

5.0 (2023-03-27)

• Add support for Python 3.11.

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

• Drop support for deprecated python setup.py test.

4.6 (2022-09-07)

• Add support for Python 3.9, 3.10.

• Drop support for Python 3.4.

4.5.0 (2019-12-19)

• Fix tests on Python 3.8 (#7).

• Add support for Python 3.8.

4.4 (2018-10-05)

• Add support for Python 3.7.

4.3.0 (2017-08-10)

• Add support for Python 3.6.

• Drop support for Python 3.3.

• Host documentation at https://zopecontenttype.readthedocs.io

4.2.0 (2016-08-26)

• Add support for Python 3.5.

• Drop support for Python 2.6.

4.1.0 (2014-12-26)

• Add support for Python 3.4 and PyPy3.

• Add support for testing on Travis.

4.0.1 (2013-02-20)

• Change the file contents argument of guess_content_type from string to bytes. This change has no effect on Python 2.

4.0.0 (2013-02-11)

• Add some tests for better coverage.

• Add tox.ini and manifest.

• Add support for Python 3.3 and PyPy.

• Drop support for Python 2.4 and 2.5.

3.5.5 (2011-07-27)

• Properly restore the HTML snippet detection, by looking at the entire string and not just its start.

3.5.4 (2011-07-26)

• Restore detection of HTML snippets from 3.4 series.

3.5.3 (2011-03-18)

• Add new mime types for web fonts, cache manifest and new media formats.

3.5.2 (2011-02-11)

• LP #717289: add video/x-m4v mimetype for the .m4v extension.

3.5.1 (2010-03-23)

• LP #242321: fix IndexError raised when testing strings consisting solely of leading whitespace.

3.5.0 (2009-10-22)

• Move the implementation of zope.publisher.contenttype to zope.contenttype.parse, moved tests along.

3.4.3 (2009-12-28)

• Update mime-type for .js to be application/javascript.

3.4.2 (2009-05-28)

• Add MS Office 12 types based on: http://www.therightstuff.de/2006/12/16/Office+2007+File+Icons+For+Windows+SharePoint+Services+20+And+SharePoint+Portal+Server+2003.aspx

3.4.1 (2009-02-04)

• Improve text_type(). Based on the patch from http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2355/

• Add missing setuptools dependency to setup.py.

• Add reference documentation.

3.4.0 (2007-09-13)

• First stable release as an independent package.